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Manufacturing Manufacture Of Rubber And Plastic Products And Other Non-Metallic Mineral Products Manufacture Of Rubber And Plastic Products 22.11 - Manufacture of rubber tyres and tubes; retreading and rebuilding of rubber tyres
450 jobs Number of planned job losses
Announcement Date
22 October 2007
Employment effect (start)
1 January 2008
Foreseen end date
31 December 2010
Description
Goodyear Dunlop, the U.S. manufacturer of tyres, has announced that it is to cut 450 jobs at its site in Amiens. The job cuts are to be implemented between January 2008 and December 2010, and the firm has stated that no compulsory redundancies will be made as a result of the restructuring. Under the terms of the plan, the number of working days in the year will also increase from the current 326 to 350. In addition, each employee will have to work 35 hours per week. Currently, there are three groups of employees working 35 hours a week at the plant and another two groups working 28 hours a week. The new plan foresees the raising of productivity at the site by 25 per cent, and will also involve an investment of 52 million EUR into new technology at the plant. Staff and unions at the Amiens plant have reacted with anger to the plan. On October 19th 2007, the 2,700 employees at the site rejected the plan with a 64.55% vote. The vote against the plan came about five weeks after the plan was announced to staff in the plant in the first half of September, and days before the firm made the official announcement regarding the job losses on 22nd October 2007.
Sources
23 October 2007: Les Echos
22 October 2007: Le Figaro
22 October 2007: AFP
23 October 2007: Le Monde
Citation
Eurofound (2007), Goodyear Dunlop, Internal restructuring in France, factsheet number 65945, European Restructuring Monitor. Dublin, https://restructuringeventsprod.azurewebsites.net/restructuring-events/detail/65945.
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